Mancalla
Extinct genus of birds
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Mancalla is an extinct genus of prehistoric flightless alcids that lived on the Pacific coast of today's California and Mexico during the Late Miocene to Early Pliocene.[1]
| Mancalla Temporal range: Late Miocene to Early Pliocene | |
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| Holotype specimen of M. vegrandis | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Charadriiformes |
| Clade: | †Mancallinae |
| Genus: | †Mancalla |
| Type species | |
| M. californiensis Lucas, 1901 | |
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